The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich is hosting the ILMPS (Irvine-London-Munich-Polimi-Salzburg) Philosophy and Foundations of Physics conference and workshop, 1-3 June. Attendance is free, but space is limited, so please register at https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/76612 if you would like to attend. The schedule is below; the italicized talks are part of the workshop on "Open Systems in Physics". For further information, see the ILMPS website at https://ilmpsnetwork.wordpress.com/ilmps-2026/.
June 1st, Edmund-Rumpler-Straße 9, Room A 011
Aaron Collavini Foundations of torsion theories of gravity
Sanne Vergouwen Are wormholes physically unreasonable?
Dominik Ehrenfels The science of the possible
Antoine Brandelet Towards a counterfactual account of physical
and formal analogies
Ana-Maria Crețu The neglect of micro-observers
Dominic Ryder Is the Standard Model an effective field theory?
Bernardo Marques The direction of renormalisation: The
A-theorem and scale asymmetry in QFT
Simone Salzano and Enrico Maresca Renormalization all the way
down!
June 2nd, Edmund-Rumpler-Straße 9, Room A 011
Yongwoo Yi Symmetry undermines separability
Arthur Saraiva Identity, individuation, and persistence in
quantum systems of similar particles
Pascal Rodríguez-Warnier Thermodynamics in the context of the
open system view: the case of fluctuations
Aditya Jha Thermodynamics of small (open) systems: A case for
stochastic thermodynamics at strong coupling
Michael Cuffaro Framework Fundamentality
Siska De Baerdemaeker When did the universe open up?
June 3rd, Edmund-Rumpler-Straße 9, Room A 011
Karim Thébault Quantum Hubble Friction
Daniele Oriti TBA
Viktoria Kabel Quantum reference frames, subsystem
relativity, and their implications for open quantum systems
Alexander Franklin Open Systems, Decoherence, and Local
Emergence